Electoral results for the district of Welshpool
Appearance
This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Welshpool in Western Australian state elections.
Members for Welshpool
[edit]Member | Party | Term | |
---|---|---|---|
Colin Jamieson | Labor | 1974–1986 | |
Bill Thomas | Labor | 1986–1989 |
Election results
[edit]Elections in the 1980s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Bill Thomas | 10,073 | 63.2 | −1.6 | |
Liberal | Stephen Gardiner | 5,872 | 36.8 | +1.6 | |
Total formal votes | 15,945 | 95.9 | −0.6 | ||
Informal votes | 683 | 4.1 | +0.6 | ||
Turnout | 16,628 | 91.8 | +4.0 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | −1.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Colin Jamieson | 9,482 | 64.8 | ||
Liberal | Robert Gray | 5,159 | 35.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 14,641 | 96.5 | |||
Informal votes | 525 | 3.5 | |||
Turnout | 15,166 | 87.8 | |||
Labor hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Colin Jamieson | 8,084 | 59.4 | +3.2 | |
Liberal | Francesco Piccolo | 5,533 | 40.6 | −3.2 | |
Total formal votes | 13,617 | 95.4 | −0.3 | ||
Informal votes | 659 | 4.6 | +0.3 | ||
Turnout | 14,276 | 87.5 | −2.6 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +3.2 |
Elections in the 1970s
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Colin Jamieson | 7,772 | 56.2 | ||
Liberal | Brian Rose | 6,065 | 43.8 | ||
Total formal votes | 13,837 | 95.7 | |||
Informal votes | 621 | 4.3 | |||
Turnout | 14,458 | 90.1 | |||
Labor hold | Swing | −7.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labor | Colin Jamieson | 8,807 | 61.5 | ||
Liberal | George Fisher | 4,492 | 31.4 | ||
National Alliance | Laurence Eaton | 1,026 | 7.2 | ||
Total formal votes | 14,325 | 94.9 | |||
Informal votes | 763 | 5.1 | |||
Turnout | 15,088 | 88.6 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Colin Jamieson | 8,961 | 62.6 | ||
Liberal | George Fisher | 5,364 | 37.4 | ||
Labor hold | Swing |
References
[edit]- ^ Prescott, David Black with the assistance of Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.